4 members of Solway Fitness will be taking on the challenge of completing 72 holes of golf in 1 day to raise money for a public access defibrillator.

The use of an automatic external defibrillator within the first 3-5 minutes of a person collapsing due to a cardiac arrest has shown to dramatically increase their survival rate. Currently, the nearest defibrillator to Solway Fitness is approximately 1 mile away. For us, this just too far away when a swift response could quite simply save someone's life.

This defibrillator will not only be accessible for users of Solway Fitness but clearly positioned on the building outside in a heated cabinet to be used in an emergency on anyone in the area who requires it.

We of course hope that this piece of equipment is never needed. However, the reality is anyone could need it at any time. When Danish footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed during this Summer's Euro 2020 tournament, the world looked on in horror as someone who is young and very fit collapsed on live TV with a cardiac arrest, only to be saved by CPR and the use of a defibrillator. A great number of cyclists pass our premises every day and we want to be able to offer a lifeline to those people too should the worst happen.